Questions tagged [usability]
Use this tag when referring to the level of difficulty when using a Stack Exchange feature or operating a web page's controls on Stack Exchange.
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Ad reloads make the page jump
I just noticed that the top ad banner seems to be reloaded every minute or so. When that happens, the content jumps up for a fraction of a second before jumping back down. This causes the screen to ...
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Add convenience link to My questions [closed]
On e.g.,
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions
there could be a convenience link added to "My questions".
That would save the user having to poke around, eventually arriving at e.g.,
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The SE Data Explorer captcha is unnecessarily annoying
Whenever I try to run a query with the Data Explorer, my process is:
Type the parameters for the query.
Click "Run query".
Click the "I'm not a robot" checkbox that suddenly ...
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Edit-locking comments is really not all that useful [duplicate]
Anyone who has been on SE for any length of time knows the bypass of copying the comment, deleting it, and reposting it. Yes, that puts our revised comment out of order, but that is often acceptable.
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Invisible placeholder-stub-answers-with-autodelete-timeout to avoid "Question closed!" frustration
Motivation: Once again I spent time creating an elaborate answer on Stack Overflow, only to find the page locked when I was done, because people were not satisfied with the details given. Sometimes ...
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Major accessibility regression: question title headings
I'm a screen reader user, and am extremely sad to notice today that on a page presenting questions, questions are no longer inside an heading tag <hX>.
Example of such a page with the tag ...
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Make it clearer that inviting a user to a room depends on the room the inviter is in, and not the invitee's chat profile
For the longest time I thought one can invite a chat user to the site's main chat room if and only if that user has used the site's main room recently. But it turns out, simply being in whatever room ...
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Allow disabling all the annoying popovers on SE sites [duplicate]
Today I tried to look up a question on Stack Overflow. I had two popovers on the page, one inviting me to take a short survey (which didn't even load!) and one inviting me to learn how the review ...
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Please revert the line-height change!
Just checking how many people feel similar. At least for me, the increased space between lines makes it a nightmare to read. My eyes lack guidance and just feel somehow lost with so much white space.
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Unread notifications have the wrong link size
Unread notifications have large spacings on top and bottom. But they are not a part of the link and you can see default context menu when clicking them (also this area is not clickable):
Instead, ...
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Broken timer? "You can only post once every 40 minutes."
Recently, I asked my first question on retrocomputing.stackexchange.com .
I later attempted to ask a second question there, but when I clicked the "Post Your Question" button, a div element with a ...
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Increase clickable area in comment flag dialog [duplicate]
The comment flag dialog recently changed. A side effect of that change was to reduce the size of the clickable area. In particular, the clickable regions on the new flag dialog are pretty skinny, as ...
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Please wrap the entire comment flag description in a `<label>` (making the entire text clickable)
Currently, in the new comment flag modal, when you want to select an option, you have to click either on the radio button, or on the top part of the description. This is because only the top part of ...
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Can't exit from comment mode using keyboard shortcuts
While browsing through the questions in a mouse and pointer free environment, if someone accidentally clicks on C instead of the intended V, they go to the comment mode on post itself.
Intuitively, ...
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Does Stack Exchange regularly conduct usability testing?
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I suspect most of you reading this question are familiar with the terms usability, usability testing (also known as user testing), and UX (user experience). However, for some folks these ...
